Re­v­erse en­g­ineer­ing of be­lief structures

[ques­tion] Recom­men­da­tions for fasting

An­throp­ics doesn’t ex­plain why the Cold War stayed Cold

Pol­ling Thread

[LINK] AI risk sum­mary pub­lished in “The Con­ver­sa­tion”

Three meth­ods of at­tain­ing change

A thought on AI un­em­ploy­ment and its consequences

Ra­tion­al­ist house

The im­me­di­ate real-world uses of Friendly AI research

Ra­tion­al­ity Quotes Au­gust 2014

Au­gust 2014 Me­dia Thread

Open thread, 11-17 Au­gust 2014

Eth­i­cal frame­works are isomorphic

Open thread, 25-31 Au­gust 2014

Study: In giv­ing char­ity, let not your right hand...

[LINK] Physi­cist Carlo Rovelli on Modern Physics Research

Thought ex­per­i­ments on sim­plic­ity in log­i­cal probability

Open thread, Au­gust 4 − 10, 2014

Steel­man­ning MIRI critics

Pre­dic­tion of the Internet

LessWrong Ham­burg Meetup Notes—Diet

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Au­gust 1-15

Brag­ging Thread, Au­gust 2014

Ar­ti­cle on con­fir­ma­tion bias for the Smith Alum­nae Quarterly

Open thread, 18-24 Au­gust 2014

LINK-Robot apoc­a­lypse taken (some­what) seriously

The ra­tio­nal way to name rivers

Model of un­los­ing agents

Eth­i­cal Choice un­der Uncertainty

Why are peo­ple “put off by ra­tio­nal­ity”?

Weekly LW Meetups

Meetup : Aus­tralia-wide mega-meetup

Group Ra­tion­al­ity Diary, Au­gust 16-31

Meetup : Ur­bana-Cham­paign: Reconstituting

Weekly LW Meetups

From Nat­u­ral (or Nat­u­ral­ized) to So­cial Epistemology

Astray with the Truth: Logic and Math

Meetup : Is­rael Less Wrong Meetup: Com­mu­ni­ties and the ra­tio­nal­ist community

[LINK] “Harry Pot­ter And The Cryp­tocur­rency of Stars”

Meetup : Lon­don—In­dex Funds and Other Fun Stuff

Meetup : MIRIxAt­lanta—De­ci­sion The­ory 2

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: In­tro to Con­fir­ma­tion Bias or “En­core” Sing­ing Game Meetup

Meetup : At­lanta—Fil­ter­ing Ideas

Sav­ing the World—Progress Report

Meetup : At­lanta Au­gust meetup—Me­dia representations

Meetup : Fifth Buenos Aires LessWrong meetup

[LINK] 2014 Fields Medals and Ne­van­linna Prize anounced

New LW Meetup: Perth

Meetup : Bratislava

Meetup : Wash­ing­ton, D.C.: CFAR Re­lated Dis­cus­sion (Park­our Post­poned)